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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.46.3
People
James Crichton, American (Baltimore, Maryland 1879 - 1907 New York, New York)
Title
The Vow, from "Tristan and Isolde;" on album leaf: Sketches of Hands
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1906
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194436

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Metallic paint, watercolor, and black ink over graphite on cream wove paper; album leaf: graphite
Dimensions
album leaf: 24.7 x 35 cm (9 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.)
sheet affixed to album leaf: 20.9 x 30.8 cm (8 1/4 x 12 1/8 in.)
border drawn around image on sheet affixed to album leaf: 19.3 x 29 cm (7 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: red watercolor, center right: JC [in monogram] 1906
  • inscription: affixed sheet, l.l., black ink, in artist's hand: The Vow
  • inscription: on album leaf, graphite, in artist's hand: Studies of my hands. / James Crichton
  • inscription: in image, graphite, erased, signed, in artist's hand: Studies of my hands in various / poses. / James Crichton
  • inscription: verso, black ink, in artist's hand: Tristram and Iseult. / Their heads neared, and their hands were drawn in one, / And they saw dark, though still the unsunken sun / Far through fine rain shot fire into the south; / And their four lips became one burning mouth. / Algernon Charles Swinburne

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Elizabeth Crichton Batty, Cambridge, Massachusetts, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Crichton Batty
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.46.3
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Another page is glued down by its right corners to the album leaf.

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